how strong is that? well, the atlantic wire tells us, we're not talking about cheerful hoops, i had a glass of wine at dinner drunk, there is always a good and responsible bit of alcohol to improve a bit of negotiation. but we're not talking about a delegate having a nip at the bar. there was one incident where a delegate got so hammered that he b barfed. and another call for being sober, the u.n., has been slow to change in the past, while new york city banned smoker inside ten years ago, took an extra five years for that to kick in at the u.n., the headquarters is now subject to the city's laws. and for years after the smokeless ban was around the united nations, first in city offices, and in bars and restaurants, delegates puffed away in the building. smoking was ultimately banned in 2008, but this time it could be different, maybe. this time the member of his

committee could heed his call and put down the pre-meeting gin and tonics and hash out their work in a timely fashion, if not, there will be consequences. >> you know what we have to do, toga party. >> we're on double secret probation, whatever that is. we can't afford to have a toga party. you guys up for a toga party? >> toga, toga, toga! >> and look, only one of those men became a u.s. senator. so you don't want to go to far with the parting. so you see, u.n. delegates, you just have to drink after work, not before, that is when you have your drink. speaking of which, that is "the last word" for this friday. i'm ezra clean in for lawrence o'donnell, you can read more. dateline is up next.

it's the steamy trial that's riveted the country. love. >> we hang out, we have sex. >> and death, caught on camera. >> the camera actually took a co couple of photos by accident during the time that he was being killed. >> really? >> jodi arias, charged with killing her lover. at first, she said she wasn't there, until this picture turned up. >> it looks like me. >> then another story. intruders killed him. >> i think i got knocked out. >> finally, her new defense, self-defense. >> you're the one that did this, right? >> yes. >> tonight, the stories you haven't heard from her friends. >> that's not the jodi i know. >> and his. >> he would joke about it, if i ever show up dead, you know why. >> i'm lester holt and this is

"dateline." ♪ o, holy night, the stars are brightly shining ♪ >> reporter: a beautiful woman is singing a beautiful song, about sin and salvation. ♪ long lay the world in sin and error pining ♪ >> reporter: at one time she said she wanted to dedicate her life to god. she had met a man who wanted to live without sin. and she believed he alone held all the salvation she needed. this story is about sin. about god. about love. about truth. and about lies. it doesn't lead to happily everafter. not even close. >> something terrible must have happened. it's horrible. i wish that she would have

reached out to somebody before all this would have happened. >> reporter: it's the story of jodi arias and travis alexander. and how they were drawn to one another. >> jodi just has a glow to her. >> reporter: patty was jodi's childhood friend. >> people were very drawn to jodi, not only because she was beautiful, but she's a great girl. >> reporter: jodi grew up in small towns in california, landing in wyreka in high school. when it came to men, patty thought jodi often chose wrong. >> as beautiful as jodi is, she always went for, it seemed like she lowered her standard for some reason. >> reporter: with guys? >> yeah, i don't know why. >> reporter: after high school, jodi drifted up and down the california coast, in and out of

waitress jobs. in 2006, she joined a company called pre-paid legal, which sells insurance to cover legal costs. at the annual convention, she met the man who would change her life, travis alexander. travis' friend, dave hall, was there. you see sparks fly at that point? >> i saw a smile on travis' face. so you figured game on. >> mr. travis alexander! >> reporter: at 29, travis was already a heavy hit we are the company. and a big personality. >> this is where i started. >> reporter: did you think she was impressed with sort of who travis was? >> i think she was a little bit swept off her feet. >> reporter: travis had grown up poor. one of seven children of parents who had serious addiction issues. eventually he moved in with his grandmother and discovered the church of latter day saints. friend and fellow mormon taylor says travis' tough upbringing

fueled his desire to succeed. >> that was kind of a theme he lived on is anything from your background doesn't have to define your futcher. >> reporter: with his humble beginnings behind him, travis used his money to enjoy life. >> mr. travis alexander is back with us. >> reporter: travis was cool, attractive, even magnetic. a guy people wanted to be friends with. and travis alexander very much enjoyed being friends with them, especially if they were women. >> it's well reported that travis was a flirt, and he loved the game of dating. it was almost like a sport to him. >> reporter: and men who like women really tended to like jodi arias. sexy, curvy, smoldering. >> to use the words of bambi, he was twitterpated and was very into the idea of her.

>> reporter: very quickly jodi and travis were going places in every sense. they bought a book, $1,000 places to see before you die." and because she was living in california and he was in arizona, they regularly met up in one of those great places. the balloon fiesta in albuquerque. the red rocks of sedona. even the lover's destination of niagara falls. >> as far as i can remember, she ea always had a camera, loved pictures. >> reporter: the result was that much of their life together was captured digitally. and as it turned out, photographs would document not just the start of this relationship, but also the end of it. that part of the story comes later. back in 2006, their romance was new and exciting. usually a time when couples can't keep their hands off of

each other. but travis was mormon. >> i don't want to make mormons sound like prudes, but everyone who is a real true to the faith mormon does take a vow in their hearts at least to be chaste in their premarital relationships. >> reporter: and travis was no different? >> yeah, travis was no different. he definitely believed in the faith and really wanted to strive to keep true to his vows. >> reporter: and then along came jodi. >> and then along came jodi. >> reporter: and what was important to travis was therefore important to her. >> she said she was dabbling in mormonism, and that was a term i thought was interesting. >> reporter: abe met jodi arias through pre-paid legal. >> she said i'm looking into it. i said well, who's the person? >> reporter: perhaps a rootless jodi had been searching for a path. but this choice seemed to involve more man than god. jodi's decision to convert took less than six weeks.

she posted this photo of the day she became mormon. dave hall recalls being skeptical. in your opinion, was jodi interested in the church for its own sake or was this just another way to sort of snare travis? >> well, in the bible we read by their fruits ye shall know them. based on the fruits that jodi has brought forward, i don't think being a member of our church was ever something she truly wanted to do. >> reporter: but now jodi and travis were both mormon. they were expected to abide by the church's very strict rules on dating. but all that chemistry would prove combustible. a formula for drama and a lot more. >> the red-hot romance between jodi arias and travis alexander was about to take a turn. and no one could have predicted where it would lead, except perhaps travis. >> he would joke about it.

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jodi arias joined the mormon church to get closer to travis alexander. the man she'd decided was the one for her. and the two seemed to be having a great time. but then, just shy of his 30th birthday, in june 2007, travis told jodi, it's over. >> 30 is a huge thing in the mormon single's world. >> reporter: shannon hogan is writing a book about travis and jodi. she stresses dating in the mormon church is structured around congregations or wards. >> once you turn 31, you get kickled out of the single's ward and go into the adult wards where he's no longer with these cute 20-year-old single mormon

girls. >> reporter: to travis, turning 30 meant he needed to find a mormon wife quickly. the breakup with jodi may have been a function of that. suggesting that he was about to get serious and she was not part of that? >> that she was never a girl that he was going to get serious with. she was just someone to keep his bed warm until he found a nice mormon girl. >> reporter: it turned out that despite her religious conversion and shared vows of chastity, jodi and travis were having sex. no matter the hypocrisy woven into that calculation, it apparently meant to travis that jodi wasn't the one to take as his wife, because she represented the sin he was trying to avoid. he shared that with his friend, taylor. >> jodi kind of represented the decision of going after someone he was physically attracted to. whereas some other girls represented settling down and having a nice stereo typical mormon relationship.

i knew he always struggled with that fork in the road should i date jodi or date these other girls. >> reporter: and so it was over. or was it? right after the breakup, jodi moved to mesa, arizona where travis lived. she waited tables and tried modeling. and travis told friends jodi was refusing to let go. >> travis confided in us, she snoops through my e-mails. she snoops through my house. she checks up on me constantly. i'm going out on a date with a different girl, and she's following me. all of a sudden his tires were slashed in the middle of the night. he thinks jodi did it. we didn't have any evidence that jodi was doing it. >> reporter: but you believe she did? >> my gut feeling was absolutely. >> reporter: all of that is a reason to never see that person again, never talk to that person again. certainly not sleep with that person again. >> you would think to. >> reporter: you would.

and yet travis did all of that. something he didn't tell his friends. travis and jodi officially history, were still secretly an item. >> i think she viewed it as, you're my ticket to a wonderful husband, a rock star lifestyle, a nice house, nice cars, and i'm not going to let it get away that easy. >> and that manifested itself how? >> she knew the one thing that travis liked, and she she could give it to him. >> reporter: publicly, travis was still on the hunt for ms. right, dating women from church. telling friends jodi was not a lover but a stalker. >> at one point i asked him if he was afraid. >> reporter: and he said no? >> he would joke about it, if i ever show up dead, you know why. but there's no way he was serious. >> reporter: whatever was going

on between travis and jodi, in april of 2008 it came to an abrupt stop. jodi seemed to have had enough. she moved back to her hometown in california, putting more than 1,000 miles between the two of them. he was happy to see her finally go? >> and he was so excited about some of the new girls he was meeting and turning over a new leaf. >> reporter: travis met with his church bishop to begin a process for repenting for his time with jodi arias and all the sins he'd committed. he also started planning a chaste trip to cancun with a new girl he met. and jodi seemed to be turning over a new leaf. on june 5, she showed up in salt lake city, on the arm of another guy from pre-paid legal named ryan burns. dave hall saw jodi while she was there. how did she seem? >> quiet, shy. >> reporter: this was normal jodi? >> normal jodi. my first impression was, travis

dumped you, kicked you to the curb, so you run to the next up and coming star in our company and try to start dating him. >> reporter: but if jodi seemed normal, something about travis did not. >> i had been trying to get in touch with travis, and he hadn't returned any of my texts or my phone calls for a few days. >> reporter: that was unusual? >> that was so unusual, because he's such a social butterfly that he would be back in touch with you within seconds. >> at that point i began to worry a little bit, wondering okay, he's been off the grid for a while. >> reporter: june 9, the day before travis was supposed to head to cancun, a worried taylor was headed to travis' house with a few friends to make sure he was okay. his friends got there first. >> i'm on the phone with one of the friends, and they go open the door, find blood everywhere.

>> 911 emergency, what's going on? >> a friend of ours is dead in his bedroom. >> reporter: the mesa pd found a crime scene reminisce enlt of the movie "psycho." >> they walked to the shower and inside they find this crumpled body and travis is lying on his back, his arms behind his head, and he's been brutally murdered and obviously dead for a long time. >> reporter: this wasn't something quick, this was a prolonged, violent attack? >> this was brutal. this was savage. this was painful and this was not a kind, gentle way to die. >> coming up, detectives find pictures of jodi arias that are revealing in more ways than one. >> that's you. all of you. >> that looks like me. >> when "dateline" continues. co] [ baby crying ] ♪ [ male announcer ] robitussin® liquid formula

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an autopsy revealed travis had been stabbed 27 times. his throat was slit from ear to ear, and he had been shot in the face. by the state of travis' body, police knew he had been killed days before. by the cuts on his hands, detectives believed travis had his hands up and was trying to defend himself. stains on the wall and floor led them to believe travis was killed outside the bathroom. whoever killed him, brought him back into the shower? >> it appears someone flooded the ground and was able to use that water to drag him back, stuff him in the shower, then wash off the floor, throw the towels, the dirty things in the washing machine. >> they took time to clean up? >> they definitely took time to clean up. >> reporter: the cleanup was far from thorough. investigators found blood and hair from someone else and a bloody hand print on the wall.

they didn't find the blood or knife, but along with all the towels, they found something in the washing machine that would turn out to be very significant. a camera. when police first examined the camera, were there photographs on it? >> there were normal photographs of travis going about his business taking photos of himself on the bike. >> reporter: but images had been deleted. had the killer destroyed evidence of travis' murder? or could the water logged camera somehow unlock that mystery? it would take time to find out. what took less time is the speed at which travis' friends arrived at a suspect. >> the first thing i did when i got there and the police got there was showed them a picture of jodi and i said you need to find out where she's at. >> reporter: she was in yreka, california. detectives went there to interview her. >> i want to ask you some questions, is that cool? >> yes, that's fine.

>> in june of 2007, you guys broke up and then you -- >> june 29. >> then you moved to mesa? >> yeah, i moved to mesa. >> most people when they break up, they kind of go -- >> i know. >> reporter: jodi is amazingly calmed and poised for a woman with no criminal record who is suddenly facing a homicide detective. watch as the detective hones in on where she was during the time travis alexander was killed. when jodi went to see her new beau in salt lake city. >> the first week of june, you took a trip to salt lake city. do you remember that trip we talked about? >> i'm thinking about. >> reporter: jodi told a story of a meandering road trip we she got lost and slept in her car. what should have taken 11 hours took nearly 48. >> i looked at a map and i'm pretty sure i know where i went. can i draw you a map? >> sure. i've been over this trip over

and over in my mind and on paper, and even -- there's still 20 something odd hours, even if you pulled over to sleep, a couple of times -- >> did i tell you i got stranded? >> yeah. you mentioned that. if you slept for ten hours -- >> i only -- >> here and here, it would still leave 18 something odd hours. >> reporter: meaning to the detective that she had plenty of time to detour to mesa, arizona to kill her ex. >> did you actually cross over into arizona? >> i crossed over twice, i think. >> reporter: jodi wasn't miss a beat in this back and forth. her friend, abe, says her composure is no coincidence. he says that what jodi is doing is straight from the pre-paid legal handbook, where it explains the art of the interview.

>> she got good at communicating. she got good at making her point and, you know, speaking succinctly and she does a lot of the nodding, like she's trying to close you. >> reporter: maybe jodi arias was trying to close this deal. but she was facing a seasoned homicide detective who knew a few things, too. by now, he had the forensic report, the hair, the blood, and even the bloody hand print, all came from jodi arias. did that noose crack jodi's composure? it did not. >> there's hair everywhere, in probably every square inch of that house. >> reporter: she had spent a lot of time at travis' house she explained, leaving hair behind. she had cut her hand on a broken glass once and that explained the blood. but the detective wasn't finished. this photographer was about to be undone by her own photographs. >> it's you i wanted to cover you up because that's you, all

of you. >> that looks like me. >> reporter: it turns out the computer forensic team at mesa pd was able to restore the deleted images. those pictures would play a critical role in the case. they proved to be revealing in all ways. they showed jodi and travis clearly intimate, naked, and each apparently photographed by the other. >> you were at travis' house. you guys had a sexual encounter, which there's pictures. >> are you sure those pictures aren't from another time? >> positive. absolutely positive. >> the last time i had any kind of sexual contact with travis was in april. >> reporter: april? the photos were date stamped june 4th. the day before jodi showed up in salt lake city. the day travis stopped returning phone calls.

and there were more recovered photos. travis in his shower. he seems to be posing for the camera. >> you took pictures of him in the shower just before he died. >> i don't think he would allow that. >> reporter: and here is where jodi arias first seems a bit rattled, because there were still more images recovered from that broken camera. pictures even she couldn't explain. >> the camera actually took a couple of photos by accident during the time that he was being killed. >> really? >> yeah, jodi, really. many people are struggling with issues related to mental health. by earning a degree in the field of counseling or psychology from capella university, you'll have the knowledge to make a difference in the lives of others. let's get started at capella.edu. thank you orville and wilbur... ...amelia... neil and buzz:

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the next pope begin tuesday. all of the 115 cardinals involved are now in rome. and a cruise ship operated by royal caribbean returned to florida carrying more than 100 people suffering from what's believed to be the norovirus. now back to "dateline." for weeks after travis alexander's murder, police worked on figuring out what had been deleted from the camera found in his washing machine. they recovered photos of travis having sex with jodi arias. photos of travis modeling in the shower. and then they found this. it was dark, upside down and hard to make out. but once they flipped it and enhanced it, the photo was a digital smoking gun. taken june 4, 2008, at 5:32:16:.

it shows a wounded travis alexander. that's him in the background. that's his shoulder. that's his blood. and in the foreground is a woman's pant leg. >> these are your pants. >> this is his bathroom. that is not my foot. >> reporter: police believe the killer accidently stepped on the camera and it snapped a photo. if that's jodi, then it's one photo this amateur photographer must wish she'd never taken. although moments after seeing it, jodi seemed to have regained her trademark composure. >> you're going to have to face the consequences. >> you know, if i did that, i would -- i would be fully ready to face the consequences. i'm not really for things like, you know, i'm all for the 10

commandments, thou shall not kill. >> reporter: but police believed that's exactly what she had done and arrested jodi arias for murder. the next day she had a new wardrobe, courtesy of the local lockup. and a new story about travis' murder. >> i'll tell you everything that i know or remember. >> okay. what do you remember? >> reporter: jodi told the detective he was right, she had detoured to mesa on her way to utah to see travis. she had taken pictures on june 4 in his bed and shower. all that was true. except she was not the one who killed travis alexander. he was killed, said jodi, now by two masked intruders in a home invasion. jodi said she was just a witness. >> two white americans from what i could tell. they had -- what do you call

those things? they cover your whole face. they got like holes for your eyes and mouth. >> a ski mask. >> reporter: jodi described a scene of mayhem. >> i was just going through pictures and i heard this loud ring. travis was screaming. i think i got knocked out, but i don't think i was out long. >> reporter: travis was hurt right away. >> i remember he was on all fours, on his knees like this, doing something like this, i don't know. and i -- i was like, are you okay, what's going on? he's like, go get help, go get help. i said okay, and i wasn't like no, but i wasn't going to leave if i couldn't leave without him. i said i can't, i said come on. he said i can't. >> reporter: jodi said the killers debated about whether or not to kill her, too.

>> they didn't discuss much, they just argued. >> about what? >> about whether or not to kill me. >> for what reason? >> because i'm a witness. >> a witness of what? >> him, of travis. >> of travis' murder? >> yeah, but i didn't see much. i ran into the closet, because there's two doors and they were in the hallway already, and he stopped me and he didn't touch me. he just held the gun to me and he was like, you don't go anywhere. >> reporter: but then she said the killers let her go. >> and you just left, you didn't run to the neighbors, you didn't try calling? you knew they were in his house. you had time to run to a neighbor, why didn't you do that? >> i was really scared. >> okay. s >> i was really freaked out of my mind. >> okay.

i don't believe you. >> reporter: the detective was, to say the very least, skeptical. >> you want to stop here and that's how you want to leave it? >> i know that i didn't take travis' life. and i know that -- >> i know that you did. >> i know you don't believe me. >> i don't believe you. >> as long as i am here, someone else is happy. >> reporter: but in jail, it was jail who looked oddly happy as she posed for her mug shot. there she waited for trial. she did not wait in silence. >> who killed him, did you kill him? >> absolutely not, no. i would never harm him. >> reporter: she kept telling the story about the masked intruders to anyone who would listen. >> there's a lot of evidence and it's very compelling. none of it proves i committed a murder, none of it. there's a reason for all of that, and that reason will be made known very soon. >> reporter: on the tv show "inside edition," she even said it was just a matter of time

before she was freed. >> no jury is going to convict me. >> why not? >> because i'm innocent. you can mark my words on that one, no jury will convict me. >> reporter: while locked up, jodi became friends with donovan beering. donovan's advice, stop talking. >> when this first happened, she was doing all those interviews, she was acting, in my opinion, a little cocky. i kept telling her, jodi, this is going to come back and get you. >> reporter: jodi did stop talking. she started singing. ♪ long lay the world in sin and error pining ♪ >> reporter: and took first place in a jailhouse singing contest. but just after christmas 2012, 4 1/2 years after the murder, jodi faced a contest with much higher stakes. >> let's bring in the jury. >> reporter: remember, she first told police she wasn't even there when travis was murdered. >> i was not at travis' house. >> reporter: then she told

police that she was there. >> travis was screaming. >> reporter: but travis was killed by masked intruders. >> you may come forward and take a seat, please. >> reporter: now on trial for her life, jodi arias had a whole new story. coming up -- >> did you kill travis alexander on june 4, 2008? >> yes, i did. >> jodi's new defense, as she takes the stand and almost doesn't get off. . [ babies crying ] surprise -- your house was built on an ancient burial ground. [ ghosts moaning ] surprise -- your car needs a new transmission. [ coyote howls ] how about no more surprises? now you can get all the online trading tools you need without any surprise fees. ♪ it's not rocket science. it's just common sense. from td ameritrade.

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>> did you kill travis alexander on june 4, 2008? >> yes, i did. >> why? >> um, the simple answer is that he attacked me and i defended myself. >> reporter: jodi's new defense was self-defense. she claimed that the charming travis, outwardly a devout mormon, was secretly a def yenlt and abuser and that she jodi was a long-time victim who finally snapped when he attacked her. her lawyers said the photos that seemed so damning didn't tell the whole story of what they described as travis' physical assault on jodi and her split second decision to fight back. >> you can see the foot in the front, with his head and his shoulders and blood clearly on his shoulders. in just those two minutes, jodi had to make a choice.

she would either live or she would die. >> reporter: she was her own star witness and she wouldn't give up the spotlight. >> jodi arias admitting to the savage murder. >> reporter: all of it covered on cable tv and online. in a marathon of testimony, jodi arias laid out her life and her relationships in excruciating detail, explaining how what happened with travis began with how her parents mistreated her. >> i think that's the first year my dad started using a belt. my mom began to carry a wooden spoon in her purse. >> reporter: her family told it all and told "dateline" they couldn't comment. jodi outlined for the jury the slaps, whippings and beatings. >> he should just push me really

hard and one time i hit a door post. >> at this time you were getting these beatings from your dad, did you love him, as well? >> yes, of course. >> reporter: she said the parental abuse eventually pushed her out the door and into the lives and beds of men who cheated on her, sponged off her, used her. and the last in a long line of those men she said was travis alexander. >> i show up, we hang out, we'd have sex. he's not really there presently, he's not mentally present. i'm getting a lot of attention, but only while engaging in sexual activity. >> reporter: jodi described a travis very different than the ones his friends knew. jodi made a recording of a steamy phone call. >> you're bad. you make me feel so dirty. >> you are dirty. >> reporter: but she and travis didn't stop there.

>> did you and travis ever videotape yourself while having sex? >> yes. >> and whose desire was for that to take place? >> his. >> reporter: she said travis had a loose interpretation of their shared vow of chastity. >> to me, sex is sex. there's just different ways to have sex. and it seemed like travis was kind of -- i don't know how to put it. but it just seemed like he sort of had like the bill clinton version. >> reporter: remember that photo taken the day of her baptism as a mormon? jodi says immediately afterward, travis took her home for sex. >> i felt like a used piece of toilet paper. i don't know. i didn't continue feeling that way, just shortly thereafter for a little while i did. >> reporter: that was early in their relationship jodi says,

but that didn't discourage her. she just kept coming back to him, even after she says the disrespect turned to physical abuse. >> he called me a bitch and kicked me in the ribs. >> reporter: she went as far as accusing travis of being a pedophile, even though there's no evidence to support that. and she says when she encouraged him to get help, he got angry. >> he went to kick me again and i put my hand out. >> what happened after that second kick? >> i screamed really loud. i yelled out, my finger or my hand. >> reporter: jodi showed the jury what she claimed was a result of travis' rage. but she said the day she feared for her life was the day he died. after a day of sex play, after they took nude photos of each other, after she took photos of

travis in the shower, there's a picture of what looks like the camera falling. she said travis' brand new camera slipped out of her hands. >> so what happens after you drop the camera? >> he was screaming that i was a stupid idiot, and he body slammed me again on the tile. >> reporter: jodi says she ran into the closet, remembering that travis kept a gun on a shelf. >> i grabbed the gun. i ran out of the closet. he was chasing me. >> reporter: the gun, she says, went off by mistake. she says that travis, even with a bullet in his head, wouldn't stop. >> it just went off and he lunged at me and we fell. and i got up, and he's just screaming angry. after i broke away from him, he said [ bleep ] you, bitch. >> reporter: but what happened

next? jodi, who remembered everything about her life and their relationship, seemingly every sex act, couldn't remember what she did. >> do you remember stabbing travis alexander? >> i have no memory of stabbing him. >> do you remember dragging him across the floor? >> no. >> do you remember placing him in the shower? >> reporter: she claimed she didn't remember stabbing travis 27 times or cutting his throat. but she did remember one thing, she was afraid she would die. >> it was like mortal terror. it was like he -- i pissed him off. >> reporter: a life long victim suddenly snapped, a moment of rage she couldn't remember. a desperate act of self-defense, or a regrettable mistake? all of that was jodi's story, the latest version. the prosecutor was about to tell a very different one.

coming up, a story of love and death. >> she rewarded that love by sticking a knife in his chest. >> when "dateline" continues. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] the next wave of italians has come to america, and the fiat 500 with beats audio is rockin' the block. the italian designed fiat 500.

jodi arias had told multiple versions of what happened between her and travis alexander. >> she was in love with him. >> prosecutor juan martinez acknowledged this was a love story that went off the rails. >> she rewarded that love by sticking a knife in his chest. >> in her latest version jodi said it was self-defense, but this was premeditated murder, martinez said because jodi had planned not only how she'd do it, but how she'd get away with it. may 28, nine days before travis died. a gun was stolen from jodi's grandparents house.

it was a .25 caliber, the same caliber as the one used on travis. june 2nd, two days before the killing, jodi rented a car. did she not want her own recognizable car showing up back in mesa? on the drive from yreka she left a very visible trail of cell phone calls and credit card receipts for food, coffee and gas. then that trail vanishes. jodi said martinez turned off her cell after she left california and when she showed up in arizona her formerly platinum hair was brown and after travis was dead, martinez said, jodi turned her phone back on and left him a friendly voicemail. >> heather and i are going to see othello on july 1st and we would love for you to accompany us. >> as he attacked both jodi's credibility and her multiple versions of what happened that

voicemail was just one more piece of ammunition. >> you knew that mr. alexander was dead? >> it's hard to explain. >> ma'am, what is hard to explain about a person breathing or not breathing? what is so difficult? why is that a difficult concept for you? >> because i've never killed anyone before. >> jodi said she didn't even know there had been a gun in her grandparent's home. sometimes she said she uses credit cards, sometimes cash and that phone battery, it just went dead and she said travis didn't break up with her. she broke up with him. critical to the prosecution was proving that jodi didn't kill travis out of fear. jodi had told the jury that travis had broken her finger in one of his rages in march 2008. >> show us how bent it is again, ma'am. higher so we can see it sideways. >> in a law and order moment.

>> take a look at exhibit 413. >> the prosecutor brought out a photo of jodi with her sister taken after she said the injury occurred. >> ma'am, this was also taken according to your testimony on may 15th. let's take a look at that of 2008. that's a picture of your left hand, isn't it? >> yes. >> you don't have a bent finger here in exhibit 453, do you? >> my finger is bent there. >> you're saying your finger is bent there? >> yes. >> it was a direct shot at jodi's credibility and her latest story of prolonged abuse. martinez then went after her sometimes convenient memory lapses and in turn, jodi went after him. >> you say that you have memory problems, but it depends on the circumstance, right? >> that's right. >> and give me the factors. i don't want to know about a specific circumstance. what factors influence your having a memory problem.

>> usually when men like you are screaming at me or grilling me or someone like travis doing the same. >> he also asked jodi about the first lie she told investigators. >> i wasn't there. >> when she said she wasn't at travis' home the day he was killed. >> and the reason you told the detectives this lie was because you didn't want to be charged in this case, did you? >> that's not the reason. >> she lied, jodi now says, to protect travis' reputation from all of the allegations about him true or not true since her arrest. most of them coming from jodi herself. >> you were being a good samaritan, right? in lying. >> i wouldn't say that. >> well, you were saying that you didn't want the stuff to come out about mr. alexander and your relationship with him, right? >> that's right.

>> well, do you think that that's an excuse that -- to not tell the truth that you wanted to hide information? >> no. >> you lied to a lot of people, right? >> everyone. >> and so you were thinking more of yourself when you made this statement to this detective, right? >> i'm not sure about that. >> well, other than you, who would be sure about your statement? >> god. >> well, god's not here. we can't subpoena him, right? >> i don't think so. >> two months into the trial after a week of scorching cross-examination jodi arias finally lost it. >> ma'am, were you crying when you were shooting him? >> i don't remember. >> were you crying when you were stabbing him? >> i don't remember. >> how about when you cut his throat? were you crying then?